Pick a vehicle, then a style

The desktop route planner used to offer four vehicle buttons and four built-in riding modes with names nobody rides by: Twisty Tourer, Fast Transfer, Scenic Cruiser and Gravel Curious. It now asks two questions in the words riders use: which vehicle, and which style.

Two steps

At the top of the route planner, choose the vehicle (Sport, Touring, Adventure, Enduro, 4x4, or Bicycle and On foot), then the style for it: Curvy or Fast on a sport bike, Scenic, Relaxed or Fast on a touring bike, Easy or Normal on an adventure bike, Light, Normal, Hard or Wet day on an enduro, Easy or Normal in a 4x4. Each one says in a line what it rides, in your language. The profiles come from the server, so a retune reaches the planner without an update, and the desktop keeps the last copy for when it is offline.

The vehicle also sets how the route is timed. Every route the planner asks for names its vehicle, and unpaved ground is timed at that vehicle's pace; the line under the route time says which. Picked on staging between Eboli and Acerno, each profile gave the same kilometres and engine minutes as when the profiles were first measured.

The sliders stay

Customise, under the picker, opens the sliders behind the profile. Move one and the style reads Custom; the vehicle stays. Save as my profile… keeps your setting under your own name and a line of description, next to the built-in styles of its vehicle and on My profiles.

This ride, and the default

The profile you pick is this ride's. A leg can have its own: the chip between two stops lists every profile. Settings → Default profile is where a new plan starts. Plans and projects saved with the old modes open on the profile that replaced each one.

A saved route keeps its line

Found on the way: a route saved to the library from the planner was stored as a straight line through its stops, so the library map drew it coarsely. It is now saved with its full line.